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Carol Kaufman used a pitching wedge Wednesday to make her second career hole-in-one. The ace came at the 92-yard 15th hole at Henderson Golf Club.

Witnesses were Bud Cori, Frank Quincy and Jim Zinn.

SSU’s McGowin named MEAC Pitcher of Week

NORFOLK, Va. — Savannah State hurler Kyle McGowin has been named the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference Pitcher of the Week.

The Sag Harbor, N.Y., native allowed seven hits and one walk to earn a 0.00 ERA in the Tigers season-opening 3-1 non-conference win over Presbyterian on Feb. 15.

The 6-foot-3, 180-pound junior struck out seven of 30 batters in seven innings in the victory.

Armstrong softball team ranked 11th in latest poll

The Armstrong Atlantic State University softball squad moved up to No. 11 with the first regular-season NFCA Division II Top 25 Coaches’ Poll released Wednesday.

The Pirates (10-2) leapt up nine spots from the preseason poll. Armstrong began the year with a 4-0 showing at the PBC-SSC Challenge in Columbus, then went 6-2 in the first two weekends of the Hampton Inn North Spring Invitational in Savannah.

Defending national champion Valdosta State (9-1) is still the top-ranked team, followed by Southeastern Oklahoma State (14-3), West Texas A&M (10-1), fellow PBC foe North Georgia (11-2) and Cal State Dominguez Hills (11-3).

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Sabres fire Ruff; name Rolston as interim coach

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Ron Rolston has been hired as the Buffalo Sabres interim coach for the remainder of the season in taking over hours after Lindy Ruff was fired amid growing criticism for the team’s slow start.

It’s a promotion for Rolston, who was in his second season as coach of AHL Rochester, the Sabres’ minor-league affiliate.

General manager Darcy Regier said the decision to fire Ruff was reached earlier in the day. It comes a day after the Sabres were booed off the ice during a 2-1 loss to Winnipeg. Regier called the loss — and the team’s performance — a “tipping point.”

The Sabres (6-10-1), who play at Toronto today, have gone 4-10-1 since opening the season winning their first two games.

With a 571-432-162 record, Ruff was the team’s winningest coach.

Lance Armstrong won’t interview with USADA

AUSTIN, Texas — Lance Armstrong will not do a tell-all interview under oath with the agency that exposed his performance-enhancing drug use and took his seven Tour de France titles.

The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency had told Armstrong he would have to reveal all knows about doping in cycling — a process officials expected would take several days — if he wanted to reduce his lifetime ban from sports.

Wednesday was the latest deadline for Armstrong to decide on USADA’s offer. After negotiating with the agency for two months, he refused.

Armstrong attorney Tim Herman said the cyclist “will not participate in USADA’s efforts to selectively conduct American prosecutions that only demonize selected individuals while failing to address the 95 percent of the sport over which USADA has no jurisdiction.”

USADA chief executive Travis Tygart said the agency had expected Armstrong would agree to talk and would be “moving on” without him.

Herman has said Armstrong is willing to participate in an international effort to clean up cycling, an effort that has broken down in spats between the International Cycling Union, the sport’s governing body, and the World Anti-Doping Agency.

“He will be the first man through the door, and once inside will answer every question, at an international tribunal formed to comprehensively address pro cycling, an almost exclusively European sport,” Herman said.